Word: along
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ferdinand Magellan. He would make a "nonpolitical, bipartisan speech," he declared with a grin. What was that? Said Truman genially: "It is a speech that throws no bricks at any other political party." Big Bill Boyle, national Democratic chairman, beamed concurrence. "Sure," said Bill. "I'm along to see that he doesn't do anything political." Both were almost overcome with the humor...
Frost was still on the grass at Savanna, Ill. (pop. 6,000) when he told 800 early risers: "I hope you don't catch cold. But I suppose you Illinois folks are used to this weather." As the train rolled along the upper Mississippi, he climbed up into the vista-dome car provided by the Burlington Railroad, gazed out at the great river that licked at the roadbed. He cracked that the Mississippi didn't really get big until it was joined by the Missouri...
...airport, at the Air Force's Boiling Field across the river, and along miles of streets in Washington and its suburbs, sirens began to howl. Ninety ambulances, dozens of police cars careened to the rescue...
...Fair Deal. "We call it the Raw Deal down here. It's no deal at all," said he. He agreed with Sims that farmers should diversify their crops, but said that "cotton is all some of them can do. Some go into truck, but truck is high risk along with high profit. It takes money to switch from cotton...
...Lenox Avenue near 111th Street. "I am out on bail because you brought me out of jail," he boomed. "I am back just in time to get re-elected . . . and no S.O.B. Medina is going to stop me." Newly freed Comrades Robert Thompson and Henry Winston, who came along for the ride, tossed a little more verbal kerosene on the fire; so did Party-Line Chanter Paul Robeson...